Fear was there, too, cold and hot at the same time, making everything in the plain room sharper, with fewer shadows.

Dig until you hit rock. Then take out that jackhammer and go a little deeper.

Every villain is a hero in his or her own mind.

You'll sleep with the lights on after reading Gregg Olsen.

You need to have faith and trust, Moira.""And a little bit of pixie dust?

So why isn't the world overrun with evil spirits?"Moira stared at her, a half-smile on her face. "Who says it isn't?

You don't believe in miracles.""Sure I do. I just haven't seen any lately.

He had to get out, get some space between him and the world, just to breathe.

She was so alone. Dead to the world. No one to love. No one who loved her.

I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

The good news is that we are Buddha. The bad news is that all beings are Buddha. The sickness of being human is the sickness of wanting to be unique.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

I'm a really big believer - this is not a statement about President [Barack] Obama, but whoever is president - that good policy is really important.

I'm proud to be white. I don't have anything against my color. But I don't think color matters, either. Just like I feel it doesn't matter that I'm a white dude doin' black music.

Someone stole my bicycle and I said I was going to learn to fight so that I could catch him and beat him up. But I never did catch him. But I ended up the champ of the whole world.

We come to God by love and not by navigation.

The end of one thing is just the beginning of another.

Education had been easy. Learning things had been harder.